#kassandra my beloved

[gravehags]

my girl is greasier than fried chicken, in her ancient greek bra and panties in front of a huge crowd of people, facing down a man three times her size and she is still giving her resting furious face. she said i’m coming home with that wreath if it fucking kills me and you (it’s definitely going to kill you though, for sure)

[whereforartthoumisthios]

Kassandra, my beloved.

Photo creds: Me

[wickedwitchofthewesninski]

Kassandra is the kind of person who falls to a pond, tumbles out, gets dragged around the ground and ends up bent over backwards absolutely smashed on a public bench...

Without ever spilling a single drop of her drink. Beer bottle always vertical and out of the water.

[anti-shakespeare]

My beloved Kassandra has appeared before me in AC Valhalla, and I, for one, can not be happier except I can't romance her as Eivor... I guess I'll have to consort fanfiction on this matter.

[alkibiadessuperfan]

I got a copy of the official novel for ac odyssey now! probably expect some screaming, comments, ranting and live reactions lmao. I only read 20 pages and was screaming silently.

[artschoolglasses]

"What are we waiting for? X marks the spot."

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

[hella-handsome]

AC Odyssey Photos 1/8

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[athamad]

Cassandra of Troy and Coroebus

ITS @classicstober BABY!!!!

So, l drew Casandra (ft. Coroebus)

[solareias]

hello everyone, question time. What do we headcanon Kassandra, Alexios, and Stentor’s birthdays to be? I personally vote for Scorpio, Virgo, and Libra.

[gorgugplushie]

the d20/greek mythism abt explode my brain autism styleee

[whereforartthoumisthios]

I played with photo mode for the first time in a few months the other day and got these beauties from it 🥹

[semperintrepida]

A chapter in which Kyra tries to adjust to having Kassandra around.

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I've learned to enjoy the silence and stillness of solitude in the years I've worked this farmstead on my own. But now I must share my sanctuary with someone I despise. I must figure out what to do with you.

What do I do with someone who only knows an axe by the way it chops into a skull, who's never stirred a pot or swept a floor, who's spent a lifetime being waited upon by slaves? I've no need for the skills you're good at, waging war and hurting people, and with your knee as it is you're limited in the labor you can do. But you will help me, by the gods, even if it's only the simplest of tasks. You're another mouth to feed, and I've little to spare and no time to waste. I start in on my list of chores as soon as we return from the path on the ridge.

Inside the hut, I set pots of milk by the fire, hand you a wooden spoon, and show you how to stir the milk so it doesn't scorch. Your brows knit in concentration, and while you focus on the task, I gather squares of finely woven linen, the cured stomach of a stillborn goat-kid, and the small jar of starter for cheese-making.

Only when I begin to pour the steaming milk into one large bowl do you realize what I'm doing. "That cheese we've been eating... It's yours. You made it."

I make an mmmhmm sound and keep pouring.

"You will show—" You wince at the look I give you and try again. "Will you show me how?"

[anti-shakespeare]

I know some people don't like AC Odyssey, but you know what? They don't deserve Kassandra anyway >:(

[freshcut-chetney]

I should replay AC Odyssey

[bunnis-monsters]

Vampire that doesn’t want to drink your blood… but does it anyways.

He finds himself disgusting, viewing you as his meal, nearly drooling at the thought of sinking his fangs into your neck. The fact he has to hold himself back from killing you every time he feeds leaves him in a state of self hatred.

What if he can’t control himself one day, what if he hurts the only good thing that’s ever come into his life? You give him your entire heart and trust him with your life… and he still has thoughts of draining you completely.

Hunger, every living being experiences it, but he isn’t alive anymore. Does he even deserve to call himself your lover when he notices you grow weaker after each feeding?

He knows for a fact one day these feedings will lead to your death.

But even still, even through the pain and exhaustion, you still bare your neck for him when he comes, that same soft smile on your face.

“Come, my darling. I want you to eat well.”

And how can he deny you? This is an act of pure love, all you want is to make your lover doesn’t go hungry.

So he puts aside his feelings and drinks from you, letting your love sink into his flesh as he holds you close.

He won’t lose you… he’ll find a way to make this work. You’re his beloved after all, and just like you want him to eat…

He wants you to live.

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[gingermintpepper]

I would love to hear you talk about Kassandra???

So, what can I say about Kassandra.

Well, firstly, I've been thinking about how I want to answer this question since I got it however many months ago and I figured I wanted to speak about my own interpretation of things rather than formal stuff - half because I don't want to cite anything since going through Iliad based papers brings me little joy and half because I figure I could treat it a bit more casually this way. So here's like, a very brief selection of thoughts I have about Kassandra, Saintess of Troy.

I view her tale as a microcosm of the wider tale of the Fall of Troy from Apollo's perspective. A human is given a choice and, of their own free-will, they make the most destructive decision ignorant of the way they're sealing their own fate and no matter how much their patron will want to save and help them, they will be unable to so much as lift a meaningful finger because the choice made is one that is sealed in Fate and powers far beyond any one god. The themes of doomed love are also shared; Kassandra loved Apollo just as Apollo loved her but she couldn't be what he wanted of her. She couldn't accept what it was he was offering, no matter how much power, honour and love he tried to tempt her with and in a lot of ways, I think of her devastating visions of doom and death(tm) as a physical parallel to the feelings Helen must be tormented with knowing that she will be cited as the reason of such mass death, destruction and violence. Likewise, I see Apollo's inability to save Kassandra up until the end as representative of his wider inability to save Troy. All his love and blessing were not enough, even though all she had to do was take his hand, it simply wasn't meant to be and so I imagine that must be a fresh hurt for him with each beloved mortal he loses during the campaign.

Kassandra is genuinely so interesting? Both as a character and as a narrative idea; she sits almost in the center of so many fascinating parallels and foils that it gets me so excited whenever she comes up in conversation! I've mentioned it briefly before but she forms a very neat triad with Iphigenia and Troilus which runs parallel to the three dominant male powers in Iliad - Agamemnon, Achilles and Apollo. They're what I somewhat refer to as the sacrifice trio, innocents who must ultimately be abandoned and stripped away for the sake of the desire of their sacrificer, in turn revealing something intrinsic about the nature of the man. For Iphigenia, she reveals that Agamemnon truly values his ambition over all, that his image and status as a leader is more meaningful to him than the love of his family (which, of course, dooms him in the end). Likewise, for Achilles, Troilus' sacrifice reveals that no matter the glamour or glory that crowns Achilles' head, his rage is ultimately his most powerful feeling and it burns bright and hot no matter the circumstance, opponent or arena. For Apollo, Kassandra's sacrifice (which is much more symbolic as he is a god and therefore need not actually physically kill her) reveals his position as the 'loser', one who will be scorned and reviled and lose all the things he loves no matter how closely he cherishes or adorns them. He can't protect the mortals he's blessed, he can't protect his children - he can't even save one woman. She also has that aforementioned triad with Helen and Andromache - the sequestered women; doomed to wait and pray but each, in their own ways working to save and support their own in the conflict. They're all haunted by the promise of what awaits them - Andromache's hopes and future lies with Hector and with her son yet she is the embodiment of a war-wife, solid and stoic in her support when Hector returns but suffering deeply knowing each fight could be his last. Helen, of course, carries with her both the suffering of the greek women and the hatred of their men - if Andromache fears death taking the breath from her beloved fighters then Helen bears the weight of death upon her shoulders, all grief and scorn is bore like a crown upon her head and she must bear it. It is her duty to bear it. Kassandra then becomes the suffering of the young women - they who are surrounding on all sides by throngs of death and do not know why it has come, they whose screams intermix with that of the dead upon them. There is no avatar for Kassandra to experience the war through, no reason for her to be stoic or strong or upright. She tears her hair, hysterical at the suffering that is poured into her mind day in and day out, wild and unrestrained where her elders must hold their grief and tame it. In this way, she gives voice to the voiceless, she screams for those who cannot and is reviled for it - a young woman surrounded by death yet ordered not to speak a word of its stench or horror. There's many more things I can talk about too such as the whole Kassandra as Apollo's living Palladium thing or the Kassandra-Electra-Clytemnestra trio or even Chryseis as a reflection of Kassandra and how the taking of a priest's daughter could be seen as tantamount to trying to steal away Kassandra (and how this eventually wraps back around to the actual incident of Kassandra being stolen away and ending up right back under Agamemnon's care just as Chryseis before her) but like, we would be here all day.

Y'all maybe this is a hot take but scorned woman Kassandra is like, the most boring interpretation of her ever. She has so much life and passion in her, so much joy, so much despair, so much love - making her jaded and cynical towards both her fate and her god is such a slap in the face to me of what her character could and generally does seem to stand for. Kassandra never stopped loving Apollo - likewise, Apollo (at least to me) never abandoned her. All in Troy suffer heavy, cursed fates - Kassandra is one of the few who at least had some awareness of how hers would turn out. I like that she's a fighter. I like that she screams and cries and spits and is expressive and ugly in her torment and grief when so many of the women around her cannot afford to be. I like that she said no and despite how much she suffered for it, she never begged for her yolk to be taken from her because she knew that the choice she made was the right one for her. She's raw, she's vivid, she's human and more than anything, that's what I love so much about her.